Quotes About Resilience

Thank you for warming the industrial gray of my concrete foundation and turning my bones from cement blocks to rich mahogany wood.

Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.

Been biting my tongue till it bleeds cry over things I don't need. My mother told me pick your battles wisely but you made me angry at the world so I chose them all.

I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.

Laughing faces do not means that there is absence of sorrows but it means the they have ability to deal wit sorrows.........

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will tan, You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy, But you'll walk like a man!

The Navajos were another matter. Theirs was a sprawling nation, wealthy in stock, obdurate in its ways, open to change but only on its terms.

more than 150 years later, these crude breastworks are still in place). At dusk the men picked the meatiest of their stringy mules and slaughtered them for a thin gravy dinner. From that day on, this forlorn spot would be known as Mule Hill.

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.

Alvin Josephy

Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

the Prophet laughed and said, "If you, ?Umar, went down one path, Satan would take another.

Freedom has real meaning when, for example, a situation of temptation arises and one remains God-fearing, steadfast, and in control of one's actions.

The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.

That is why we got booted out. If they could have just squeezed us like an orange and squeezed the juice out, I think the juice would have been squeezed out of us, and all the goodness would have been sucked away. But it was a bit harder, wasn't it? It was more like the durian. You try and squeeze it, your hand gets hurt. And so they say, "Right, throw out the durian." But inside the durian is a very useful ingredient, high protein … And we will progress.

There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.

We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect.

I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.

It is amazing how much the Palestinians can tolerate economic deprivation. It is the imprisonment that hurts... this is not a security siege, it's a punitive siege.

Some misguided Israelis believe that if they make life unbearable for us, we'll leave. No Palestinian is ready to go into exile or commit collective suicide. We are here to stay.

El amor apasionado, ese que te abre las puertas al paraíso, es raro y exquisito. Y solo soportan esta intensidad los seres fuertes, aquellos que no se escapan ante el primer desafío. Por eso muchos jamás lo conocen, muchos claudican ante la primera incomodidad.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.